REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEKASI -- Minister of Transportation, Ignasius Jonan, was targeting double track construction project to be completed in 2017. The double track was for electric trains and long-distance trains that pass through Manggarai-Cikarang route.

"We are targeting the completion around 2017 or 2018," said Jonan, when reviewing the construction of double track project in Bekasi Station, West Java, Sunday (4/10) night.

He stated, the purpose of the project was to increase the frequency of train schedules, in order to avoid long queues.

"The aim of double track project is to make the electric trains and long-distance trains have its own track," he added.

Meanwhile, land acquisition had been carried out as required by the construction, but there were also unfinished land acquisition in Cikarang, Bekasi.

"The process of land acquisition is still around 20 percent, hopefully it will be soon finished," he said.

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